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The League was part of the coalition for Michigan Citizens for\u00a0Strong & Safe Communities, which actively supported Proposal 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

A huge thank you goes out to all the Michigan Municipal League member communities and supporters backing Proposal 1 on Tuesday’s primary ballot. The measure, which completes the plan to phase out personal property taxes that businesses pay, passed with 69 percent of the voters in support, according to preliminary results\u00a0reported by\u00a0mlive.com<\/a> and the Detroit News<\/a> with 99 percent of the precincts reporting.<\/p>\n

Proposal 1\u00a0represented a considerable amount\u00a0of negotiations and work by League staff and our members. We thank our many members who have publicly supported this proposal by passing resolutions<\/span><\/a>\u00a0encouraging a YES vote, doing media interviews, participating in news events and writing letters to their local newspapers. Read this article<\/span><\/a> by the League\u2019s Samantha Harkins about this history of this issue and why the League supported this measure.<\/p>\n

“What this really means for us is stability,” Harkins, the League’s director of state affairs,\u00a0told reporter Paul Egan of the\u00a0Detroit Free Press for an article about Proposal 1’s passage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s an excerpt from a Michigan Public Radio piece by Jake Neher<\/a> about voters approving Proposal 1. This report also includes comments by Harkins:<\/p>\n

Communities depend on revenue from the tax to pay for things like police, fire, and roads. (Governor) Snyder says the proposal ensures they will be fully compensated for any lost revenue.<\/em><\/p>\n

Local government groups say they agree. “I think, from the local government level, it really provides certainty for us in a way that the failure of Proposal 1 certainly would not have created that certainty,” said (Harkins). “And we’ve had a lot of uncertainty in the last decade.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Also in the “good news for communities” category, MIRS News is reporting that 80 percent of the “new money asks”\u00a0in\u00a0local ballot proposals were approved by voters. That 80 percent passage rate is\u00a0consistent with the results from the past several elections. Here’s a chart <\/a>by MIRS that shows the local ballot proposal results by community.<\/p>\n

Matt Bach is director of media relations for the Michigan Municipal League. He can be reached at mbach@mml.org and (734) 669-6317\"\"<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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